Word: botticelli
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...temples with obelisks and sphinxes, while Greece's Parthenon was glorified by the handiwork of Phidias. Michelangelo unified Florence's Piazza della Signoria with his 14-ft.-high David-which was positioned in front of the Palazzo Vecchio by a committee that included Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli...
...both his life and art. He painted as he dressed, mostly in banker's black and grey, composing his scenes with photographic accuracy. But what impish fantasies: cigar boxes puffing smoke, a leaden sky raining tiny, bowler-hatted figures, the leaning tower of Pisa buttressed by a feather, Botticelli's Primavera superimposed on the back of a businessman's overcoat. "People are always looking for symbolism in my work," he once said. "There is none. Mystery is the supreme thing...
...restoration laboratories and storage areas and much of the work on the ground floor of the Uffizi Galleries was also destroyed. Among the works lost are some by Giotto, Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, Masaccio and Simone Martin. The photo library and archives were completely destroyed as well, although 130,000 negatives--covered with oil and thought irretrievably lost -- are now in the process of restoration with the help of Harvard restorers...
...plaudit for Chaliapin's Bacall à la Botticelli. She emerges bewitching and eternally feminine right into our frantic 20th century...
...Journey of the Magi, one of the great treasures of the Italian Renaissance, painted in the 15th century by Benozzo Gozzoli on the walls of Florence's Medici-Riccardi Chapel. Other masterworks in the show include Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Botticelli's Madonna Magnificat, El Greco's Virgin with St. Ines and St. Tecla, and Giorgione's Adoration of the Shepherds...